Collapsible basket

ABSTRACT

A collapsible basket includes a fabric body, a base rack and a snap-in frame; magic tape being attached to the inner circumference of the opening of fabric body to cover up the snap-in frame; hooks each adapted with mobile locking levers being each provided on both sides of the base rack to hold the base rack at the bottom of the inner edge of the fabric body; the locking levers being collapsed and stacked for easy storage when the basket is not used and respectively fitting in the snap-in frame to stretch up the fabric body with a base board placed flat on the bottom of the base rack when the basket is in use.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

(a) Technical Field of the Invention

The present invention is related to a basket, and more particularly to acollapsible basket to facilitate storage and assembly.

(b) Description of the Prior Art

Baskets either found available at home or in shopping malls are usuallymade of plastic or fabric material. However, those baskets occupy toomuch space since the plastic basket is not foldable. On the other hand,certain baskets, although made of fabric, which is foldable, preventseasy folding in and reassembly.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

The primary purpose of the present invention is to provide a collapsiblebasket with added value that is collapsed for easy storage and allowseasy reassembly into a basket for use. To achieve the purpose, thepresent invention is essentially comprised of a fabric body, a base rackand a snap-in frame. Magic tape is attached to the inner circumferenceof the opening of fabric body to cover up the snap-in frame. Hooks eachadapted with mobile locking levers are respectively provided on bothsides of the base rack to hold the base rack at the bottom of the inneredge of the fabric body. The locking levers are collapsed and stackedfor easy storage when the basket is not used; and are respectivelyfitted in the snap-in frame to stretch up the fabric body with a baseboard placed flat on the bottom of the base rack when the basket is inuse.

The base rack is provided with multiple locking levers with both ends ofeach lever to be folded upward along the side of the frame to define thehook for the levers to snap in.

The foregoing object and summary provide only a brief introduction tothe present invention. To fully appreciate these and other objects ofthe present invention as well as the invention itself, all of which willbecome apparent to those skilled in the art, the following detaileddescription of the invention and the claims should be read inconjunction with the accompanying drawings. Throughout the specificationand drawings identical reference numerals refer to identical or similarparts.

Many other advantages and features of the present invention will becomemanifest to those versed in the art upon making reference to thedetailed description and the accompanying sheets of drawings in which apreferred structural embodiment incorporating the principles of thepresent invention is shown by way of illustrative example.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 is an exploded view of a preferred embodiment of the presentinvention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing that the preferred embodiment of thepresent invention is collapsed for storage.

FIG. 3 is a schematic view showing that the preferred embodiment of thepresent invention is reassembled.

FIG. 4 is a perspective view of the preferred embodiment of the presentinvention is reassembled for use.

FIG. 5 is a sectional view of the preferred embodiment of the presentinvention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The following descriptions are of exemplary embodiments only, and arenot intended to limit the scope, applicability or configuration of theinvention in any way. Rather, the following description provides aconvenient illustration for implementing exemplary embodiments of theinvention. Various changes to the described embodiments may be made inthe function and arrangement of the elements described without departingfrom the scope of the invention as set forth in the appended claims.

Referring to FIG. 1, a preferred embodiment of the present invention isessentially comprised of a fabric body 1, a base rack 2, and a snap-inframe 3. The opening of the fabric body 1 has attached to its inner edgea male magic tape 11 and a female magic tape 12. The base rack 2contains a frame 21 provided with multiple levers 22. Both ends of eachlever 22 are curved upward along both shorter sides of the frame 21 toform multiple hooks 23.

The snap-in frame 3 includes a frame 31 and multiple sleeves 32 providedon both shorter sides of the frame 31 for two locking levers 33 topenetrate through thus to rotate in the sleeves.

The base rack 2 is placed flat on the bottom of the inner edge of thefabric body 1 and the snap-in frame 3 is received and concealed in theedge of the opening of the fabric body by means of both male and femalemagic tapes 11, 12 separating from each other for a certain spacing todefine a basket 100. When the basket 100 is not used, both lockinglevers are turned and overlapped on each other for the fabric body 1 tobe flatted for facilitating storage. When the basket 100 is used, juststretch up the fabric body 1 and respective press down both lockinglevers to snap in hookers 23 on the base rack 2 to hold the basket body1 in shape to accommodate commodities.

As illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3, when the present invention is not used,both locking levers 33 of the snap-in frame is overlapped and flattened.The fabric body 1 by virtue of its material allows it to be collapsedfor facilitating carrying and storage without consuming too much space.Multiple baskets 100 can be stacked up to facilitate handling or gettingready for the consumers to take. When the use is desired, the fabricbody 1 is pulled up and both locking levers are pressed down and turnedto both sides of the fabric body 1 to engage the hooks 23 provided onboth sides of the base rack 2 to stretch up and hold in shape the fabricbody 1.

Now referring to FIGS. 4 and 5, once both locking levers 33 are engagedwith hooks 23 of the base rack 2 and the fabric body 1 is stretched upand held in shape, a base board 4 is placed on the bottom of the fabricbody 1 for better placement of various types of commodities therein. Thefabric body 1 is further stretched and secured in shape without the riskof sudden collapse since the hooks 23 of the base rack 2 firmly secureboth locking levers 33.

It will be understood that each of the elements described above, or twoor more together may also find a useful application in other types ofmethods differing from the type described above.

While certain novel features of this invention have been shown anddescribed and are pointed out in the annexed claim, it is not intendedto be limited to the details above, since it will be understood thatvarious omissions, modifications, substitutions and changes in the formsand details of the device illustrated and in its operation can be madeby those skilled in the art without departing in any way from the spiritof the present invention.

1. A collapsible basket includes a fabric body, a base rack and asnap-in frame; the inner edge of the opening of the fabric body beingprovided with a male and a female magic tapes separating from each otherfor a certain spacing; the base rack related to a frame provided withmultiple levers, and both ends of each lever being curved upward alongboth shorter sides of the frame to define multiple hooks; the snap-inframe having provided on its both short sides multiple sleeves torespectively receive two mobile locking levers; the snap-in frame beingreceived and concealed in the inner edge of the opening of the fabricbody by means of those two magic tapes; the base rack being placed onthe bottom of the inner edge of the fabric body; both locking leversbeing overlapped and flattened to facilitate carrying and storage; andboth locking levers being pressed down to engage the hooks of the baserack to stretch up and hold the fabric body in shape when the use of thebasket is desired.